CLASSIFICATION. 5) 
he is convicted of having sprung from parents unlike 
himself, he is a mere parvenu, stigmatized as a “variety,” 
** aberration,’’ or ‘‘ sport.’’ 
Of course, such varieties have often been fixed by breed- 
ing from them in captivity, as we shall see later ; and the 
work of bird-fanciers and stock-breeders in this direction 
has been of an importance which has never yet received 
its due meed of praise and encouragement, considering 
that by studying it Darwin was able to demonstrate 
the possibility of the production of one form from another, 
and thus to raise the study of zoology from a mere 
pastime to a philosophy of life. 
The name descriptive of the particular species is, it 
will be seen, placed under that of the genus, although 
the opposite obtains in English and Hindustani. This 
is simply because in Latin the adjective always follows 
the substantive, as in so many other languages ; and all 
scientific nomenclature follows the rules of Latin Gram- 
mar, although the words are more often than not 
adopted from the Greek. Besides which, it is certainly 
a great convenience to have the generic name first, just 
as in indexing a number of people’s names one reverses 
the usual order and puts the surname before the 
‘Christian name. 
If we carry our investigations into Parrots further, we 
shall find a number of species, grouped again into genera- 
tions which differ very much from the Indian long-tails 
and Australian broad-tails. They have brush-tipped 
tongues, run a great deal to red in colour, have a peculiar 
smell, a sharp cry, and live on soft food, not on grain. 
